Albert Perry carried a secret in his DNA: a Y chromosome so distinctive that it reveals new information about the origin of our species.New Scientist From ACM News | March 7, 2013
Ford Motor Co. recently released OpenXC, an open source hardware and software toolkit that will allow the hacker community to experiment with the computer systems...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 28, 2013
When Microsoft's Kinect gaming sensor first exploded onto the gaming scene in 2010, it wasn't long before people started getting excited about what it might make...New Scientist From ACM News | January 22, 2013
Every year a computer worm emerges to stalk the Internet, each one seemingly bigger and badder than the last (see diagram).New Scientist From ACM News | January 9, 2013
Soon we'll be able to engineer living things with mechanical precision, says Tom Knight, father of synthetic biology.New Scientist From ACM Opinion | December 11, 2012
Computer chips that mimic the human brain are outstripping conventional chips in crucial ways. They could also revolutionise our understanding of how the brain...New Scientist From ACM News | November 26, 2012
When it comes to the human brain, many scientists believe that we are incapable of understanding how it works because we lack the tools and intelligence to measure...New Scientist From ACM News | November 16, 2012
A robot that learns to play ping-pong from humans and improves as it competes against them could be the best robotic table-tennis challenger the world has seen.New Scientist From ACM News | November 2, 2012
Give a friend directions, such as, "it's across the street from a petrol station, just after a red brick building on the right..." and you can be pretty sure they'll...New Scientist From ACM News | October 25, 2012
One of the greatest benefits of 3D printing technology—the ability to make replacements or parts for household objects like toys, utensils and gadgets—may be denied...New Scientist From ACM Opinion | October 16, 2012
Alert to a sudden threat, you race down a virtual corridor of servers, hot on the tail of malicious software.New Scientist From ACM News | October 4, 2012
The Turing test might still be too hard for software to crack—but two programs have already aced video gaming's answer to this famous evaluation of machine intelligence...New Scientist From ACM News | October 2, 2012
Everyone knows how easy it is to recognize a friend or family member from their walk—even from a distance.New Scientist From ACM News | September 20, 2012
It's not easy to give over 1.3 billion people access to the internet—especially if that population is spread across a vast area that ranges from hinterland to sprawling...New Scientist From ACM News | September 18, 2012
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is using facial-recognition technology to identify criminals and the system will be rolled out nationwide by 2014. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | September 11, 2012
Smarphone owners carry around more processing power in their pocket than a 1970s-era supercomputer, but most of the time it languishes unused.New Scientist From ACM News | September 4, 2012